Nabil Hafez

Nabil Hafez

Director, Healthcare Strategy & Commercialization at GenomeQuest Inc.

Location
Greater Boston Area
Industry
Biotechnology

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Nabil Hafez's Overview

Current
  • Director, Healthcare Strategy & Commercialization at GenomeQuest Inc.
Past
  • Contractor at AstraZeneca
  • Bioinformatics Project Specialist at Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard
  • Process Supervisor at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Coordinator at Broad Institute
  • Data Analyst at Broad Institute

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Education
  • Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
  • Brandeis University
  • State University of New York at Binghamton
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Nabil Hafez's Summary

At GenomeQuest, I conceptualized and led product management and market strategy on GenomeQuest's clinical product through close interactions with clinical labs across the country. Most recently, l worked with management to create a new healthcare strategy department to capitalize on emerging market opportunities - crafting ideas, developing strategies, and executing on those strategies to spawn and execute new businesses.

Previously, I have spent over a decade working on solving problems in genomics, bioinformatics, and subsequently next generation sequencing technologies. Spending eight years at the Broad Institute managing a team working on the finishing of the Human Genome Project. I later transitioned to the Technology Development Group as next generation sequencing technology emerged and worked with NGS vendors’ products from their infancy and helped develop these early prototypes into genome center production scale platforms.

With that gained experience I founded Seqwise LLC a tech consulting firm that helped laboratories, institutes, start-ups, and pharmaceutical companies transition to NGS through technology and strategy consulting as well as informatics services. As managing partner, my focus was on business development, operations, as well as product, market, and bioinformatics consulting.

I hold an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, a MS in Bioinformatics from Brandeis University, and a BS in Biology from Binghamton University.

Nabil Hafez's Experience

Director, Healthcare Strategy & Commercialization

GenomeQuest Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry

August 2012 – Present (10 months) Westborough, MA

● Worked with CEO to create new strategy group to develop and capitalize on new business and growth opportunities and products in the healthcare sector.
● Conceived and generated plan for a new business opportunity that involved linking segregated data from physicians and clinical genetics labs to drive decision making within biomarker and translational groups at pharmaceutical companies.
● Conducted extensive due diligence with translational and biomarker leaders at major pharma and directors at clinical labs, and presented the plan to executives and the board of directors.
● Engaged in and managed partnerships to advance business case and create new product opportunities.

Clinical Product Manager

GenomeQuest Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry

September 2011 – August 2012 (1 year) Greater Boston Area

● Product manager for GQ-Dx; GenomeQuest’s clinical diagnostic software product.
● Conceptualized and created GQ-Dx and worked closely with customers to guide development efforts and bring next generation sequencing (NGS) to the clinic.
● Led development team efforts and developed company market and product strategy in the clinical marketplace.
● Coordinated efforts with sales, marketing team, and communications firm to launch effective diagnostic focused marketing campaigns.

Senior Field Application Scientist

GenomeQuest Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry

May 2011 – October 2011 (6 months)

● Worked closely with the sales team as the technical lead on customer engagements.
● Managed customer accounts, built relationships and provided support.

Co-Founder, Principal

SeqWise LLC

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry

July 2008 – April 2011 (2 years 10 months)

● Co-founded a DNA sequencing technology consulting company with a team of molecular scientists to capitalize on an emerging market opportunity.
● Generated new business opportunities, managed engagements, wrote proposals, created presentations, and managed a network of consultants to address client needs.
● Prepared market assessment and strategy reports for clients.
● Informed, advised, and helped deploy new sequencing technologies at GlaxoSmithKline that increased throughput on drug development screening assays by a factor of 15.
● Conducted data and statistical analysis for the launch of a multi-million dollar start up (Raindance Technologies’) first product. .

Contractor

AstraZeneca

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AZN; Pharmaceuticals industry

December 2009 – December 2010 (1 year 1 month)

Developed an enterprise-wide web application to simplify the gathering, sharing, and analysis of competitive intelligence. The application collects public domain information from multiple curated data sources, integrates it, renders visualizations, and presents it in a consolidated and searchable view. This allows researchers and business development to piece together a picture of the competitive landscape and find unexploited areas for drug development or discover opportunities for in-licensing.

Bioinformatics Project Specialist

Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard

Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry

February 2006 – July 2009 (3 years 6 months)

● Collaborated with vendors and internal stakeholders on prototyping, development, and systems integration of cutting edge next generation DNA sequencing technologies and infrastructure.
● Worked on the first publicly released Illumina (Solexa) NGS sequencing instrument
● Developed tools to process and visualize complex sequencing data and performed statistical analyses on large data sets.
● Built a central database to document and track all laboratory experimental designs.
● Acquired and deployed software platform enabling hundreds of researchers to collaborate efficiently; providing project tracking and transparency in addition to saving hundreds of hours of work.

Process Supervisor

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry

August 2004 – February 2006 (1 year 7 months)

● Led a team with five direct reports and four second-tier employees responsible for process development and production operations in support of the Mouse Genome Project.
● Conceived and implemented new processes and organizational structure; boosting monthly data output by a factor of 40.
● Created new relational database, software, metrics, and cost models to track all production information used by management and analysts to measure performance and reduce costs.

Coordinator

Broad Institute

Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry

February 2002 – August 2004 (2 years 7 months)

● Managed and trained a team of 7 data analysts responsible for analyzing and correcting sequencing data towards successful completion of the Human Genome Project.
● Completed the most difficult parts of a 13 year, 20 institution, $3B worldwide government funded scientific effort on time under a tight and very public deadline.

Data Analyst

Broad Institute

Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry

July 2001 – February 2002 (8 months)

Performed analysis of DNA sequence data. Doubled average Full Time Equivalent (FTE) output.

Nabil Hafez's Certifications

  • JMP Statistical Data Exploration

    • SAS

  • JMP ANOVA and Regression

    • SAS

  • JMP Design of Experiments

    • SAS

  • Matlab & Matlab Image Processing

    • Mathworks

  • Certified UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Nabil Hafez's Education

Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

MBA, Marketing, Corporate Strategy

2007 – 2009

Brandeis University

MS, Bioinformatics

2003 – 2006

State University of New York at Binghamton

BS, Biology, Computer Science

1997 – 2001

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